03 - Decentralized Identity - Resource Guide

by: DWeb; Wendy Hanamura; Arkadiy Kukarkin; Iryna Nezhynska; Alicia Urquidi Diaz

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Usage: CC0 1.0 Universal

Topics: decentralized storage, DWeb, METRO Sessions, decentralized web

Collection: dweb-webinar-series; DWeb-Archive; internetarchivepresents; theinternetarchive

Language: English

This resource guide was created to accompany Session 02 of the Webinar Series Imagining a Better Online World: Exploring the Decentralized Web.

Over the last twenty years, a movement has formed calling for user-centric, decentralized identity. This movement asks: who should be allowed to create and store the information associated with an individual? Can we cut out the middleman and still trust in the security of our private information and credentials? What if you could maintain control over your personal identity and share only what is needed?

One of the goals of decentralized identity is to give users control over what personal information is shared, with whom, and for which purposes.